Posts tagged ‘meta’

This chat is off the recordYou: [ introductory line that was written in a humourous way but which falls flat when written down ] Red: [ a reply that strokes your ego and lets you think that it was infact very funny ]You: [ acknowledgement of advanced literary skills with an implied request for reassurance that you aren't, in turn, humouring me ]You: [ rapid non-sequitor ]You: [ in attempt to distract from neediness ]You: [ spelling correction ] Red: [ apology for slow reply ] Red: [ reply to non-sequitor ] Red: [ attempt at starting simultaneous conversation ]You: [ counter apology for not getting back ]You: [ attempt to blame 3rd party ]You: [ question regarding the only thing remembered from yesterday's conversation ]You: [ reply to non-sequitor reply ]You: [ explaination that non-sequitor reply was not, in fact connected to conversation about yesterday ]You: [ embarassed silence ] Red: [ polite chuckle ] Red: [ question regarding delicate subject that I find amusing but am trying not to show that I find it amusing ]You: [ comment about co-workers in attempt to pretend question didn't happen ]You: [ follow up comment that is ambiguous in nature and could be connected to above or could be answering your question ]You: [ random swear words and technology type ] Red: [ sympathy over tech, coworkers etc ] Red: [ disbelief at tech, coworkers etc ]You: [ attempt to imply these coworkers are worse than any other coworkers ]You: [ unintended implication that suggests it could be me who is the one at fault ]You: [ backtrack ]You: [ self depricating comment with smiley face to imply that this is a joke when secretly I fear it's true ] Red: [ comment to help cement the belief that yes, your coworkers are the worst ] Red: [ hugs or similar to try to boost your mood ]You: [ acknowledgement and reciprocation ]You: [ innudendo ]You: [ jokey dismissal of innuendo ]You: [ question regarding husband / boyfriend / girlfriend intended to reassure that I appreciate that you are not available and innuendo was not a proposal ] Red: I am so sorry – I have to stop because I have a non-sequitor that is too perfect not to say at this point… Red: I saw some Japanese bondage on tv the othe night and thought of you

[ attempt to explain away bondage reference while knowing and acknowledging the fact that no-one who reads this will believe it ]

1) How come nobody told me that the input fields on the comment form had no text to tell you what each one did…? Oh… Nevermind…

2) There’s now a ‘subscribe’ link under the comment box so that you can have it tell you if anyone else comments on a post. At the moment it insists that you approve every time you subscribe. I’ll see if I can fix that one.

3) I’ve added a tracker that adds any post marked ‘hoot’ to my twitter feed. I doubt many of you will care, but I thought it would explain the new (and odd) tag.

Every second a new blog is started1. This is the blog for this second…

Anything from this point onwards has been brought over from a different site. Unfortunately comments haven’t come over with them, so the sparkling wit my words generate isn’t here. Unless commenters are as bored as I was when I started the transfer.

For the record “Sodium Lights The Horizon” means nothing. It was a random phrase that came from a random conversation. It seems strangely lyrical but google returned zero hits on the phrase. Simple as that…